Shanxi Mobile To Expand GSM Network

Alcatel has announced the signing of two contracts for a total of €24m with Shanxi Mobile, a subsidiary of China Mobile. One of the contracts is the 11th GSM network expansion with this operator; the other is a GSM/GPRS network spares contract. The contracts were won through Alcatel Shanghai Bell, Alcatel’s flagship Chinese company.Under the terms of the network expansion contract, Alcatel will provide and install its Evolium GSM/EDGE solutions – including base stations, base-station controllers, transcoder and an operation and maintenance centre for radio – in seven major cities in Shanxi province.

Under the second contract, Alcatel will provide GSM/GPRS network spares for existing network maintenance.

Completion of the projects will extend mobile services to an additional three million subscribers in Shanxi.

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